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University Daily Kansan, February 15, 1984
Page 9
Commission commits $200,000 for city rehabilitation projects
By SHARON BOOTH Staff Reporter
Last night the Lawrence City Commission committed more than $200,000 to three city rehabilitation projects.
The money will be used for housing rehabilitation projects, for the section of 15th Street that runs from Haskell Avenue to Brook Street, and for renovation of a fountain in South Park.
For the projects, the commission allocated $110,800 to housing rehabilitation, $85,120 to 15th Street implemmentation, and the South Park pondstone renovation.
The commission unanimously voted to reallocate the money from community development block grant funds, which were left over from water line fees to the weatherization fund, housing loan funds and other loans from the city.
Federal funds provide money for community development. The city distributes the money for projects to help low income people.
Along with the improvements between Haskell Avenue and Brook Street, the commission said it intended to provide additional improvements to 15th Street between Brook and Cadet streets by issuing general obligation bonds.
The amount approved by the City Commission will finance less than half of the improvements proposed for 15th Street. The city's Public Works Department had proposed improving a street from Connecticut to Cadet streets.
Sue Davis, chairman of the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board, said the money for housing rehabilitation would provide improvements to eight low income houses.
In a 3-2 vote, the City Commission also approved $14,000 in community development funds for the Young Achievers program to help the group pay for a teen center.
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against grafting the money to the hemp
grazing the money to the hemp
Longhurst said, "I'm very uncomfortable with the contortions we have to go through, and the paperwork we have to go through to make sure that people of the right income bracket are affected by this center."
The young adults group can only receive the money if it retains eligibility as a low-income group.
This means that at least 51 percent of its members must be low income.
If the group loses its low-income status, the community development money from the city will be discontinued. In addition, the Development Director Lynn Goodell.
The main expenses the group faces are rent payments for the center's site in the Holiday Plaza, 25th and Iowa and a sound system for dapens.
In other action, the City Commission approved a zoning change for an office park and granted a special permit for a financial company on the southwest corner of Crestline Drive and Clinton Parkway.
The developers for the office park, estimated to cost about $8 million, are S. × P. Investment Properties, Ltd. of California, and Iowa Street Associies of Lawrence. The plan to call the office park "Walden Pond."
In its plans, the developers want to
build a bank, a savings and loan
13 offices. The complex will be
located on 42nd Avenue of Law-
rence Avenue on Clinton Parkway.
The City Commission also asked its staff to prepare a report on improvements to the Lawrence Airport.
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State studying title forgery
Local car dealer being investigated
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A Lawrence car dealer, charged last month with title fraud and forgery, is among several dealers being investigated statewide for "title washing," an official in the attorney general's office said yesterday.
Ken Smith, an assistant attorney general, said that no other dealers in the state had been charged in the investigation. Charges probably will be brought against other dealers within the next few months, he said.
The Lawrence car dealer, Bert Coleman Jr., was charged in Shawnee County District Court with four counts each of title fraud and forgery, Smith said. Coleman pleaded not guilty to the charges Jan. 9.
Coleman, the owner of Wheels
Express, a wholesale dealership at 637 E. 22nd St., allegedly altered four Kansas car titles by cutting the mileage of other vehicles with figures on the Kawasaki titles. Smith said.
Smith said other dealers then rolled
smash idiometers on four cars to
match the truck.
Officers from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and other agencies that are carrying out the investigation have not yet been able to locate the cars with the rolled back odometers, Smith said. But the investigators do have the fraudulent titles.
Daimler said that employees at the Daimler Motor Vehicles noticed the altered title.
Though Coleman is a Lawrence resident and his dealership in the city, Smith said, he was charged in Shawnee County District Court because the fraud occurred at the Division of Motor Vehicles in Topeka.
"People at the Division of Motor vehicles scrutinize the titles very carefully," he said. "It's like any other place where you bring documents."
Smith said the maximum sentence for title fraud is 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The maximum sentence for title fraud is 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Barbara Clark, a spokeswoman for the Department of Revenue, said that dealers who were caught rolling back taxes sometimes only had their licenses revoked.
But the charges of fraud and forgery may warrant a harsher penalty in this case.
The mileage odometers were each rolled back about 20,000 miles, Smith said, so each used car's value increased a few hundred dollars.
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